J. G. Ballard says that a lot of writers are 'intensely nostalgic'. Take the Angry Young Men. Kingsley Amis, John Osborne and others weren't responding to what was really going on in society.
'The laying down of the M1 was much more important than anything Jimmy Porter's father-in-law thought about this or that. The motorway system had a much bigger influence on freedom and possibility ... I was interested in the evolving world, the world of hidden persuaders, of the communications landscape developing, of mass tourism, of the vast conformist suburbs dominated by television ...'
‘We can tell farmers the problems’: experts say seismic waves can check
soil health and boost yields
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‘Soilsmology’ aims to map world’s soils and help avert famine, says
not-for-profit co-founded by George Monbiot
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George Monbiot: Over a pint ...
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